Join Ramblers Wellbeing Walks Cumberland for short, local and accessible walks to help you get more active.
Walks are over easy ground and taken at steady pace to suit everyone
Walks range from 10 to 90 minutes in length
At least one short walk a week, starting at the same time and place every week
All walks are accessible on foot or by public transport
You only need to join a group once to access all future walks
This is a short walk of less than 1km around Millom on level pavements in association with the Norman Nicholson Society Festival.
Joseph Nicholson (1880 – 1957) lived above his gentleman’s outfitters shop at 14 St George’s Terrace. Each afternoon, he would take a break and walk around the block along Lapstone Road to the School and back along St George’s Road. People were said to set their clocks by him. His son, Norman Nicholson the poet, spent almost all of his life living in that building and he gives accounts of Joe and his life in Millom in his poetry and autobiography “Wednesday Early Closing”.
There are few opportunities to sit down on the walk. We will have a short discussion first outside the shop and afterwards in the Market Square where there is seating.
The Nicholsons worshiped in St George’s Church Millom, just up from the Market Square. On the walk day, the Church will be open and hosting the traditional Christmas Tree Festival. As a local “Warm Hub” on Wednesdays, hot refreshments will be served. We may have a reading of one of Norman Nicholson’s Christmas poems.
Under the Clock Tower, Millom Market Square
Walks are over easy ground and taken at steady pace to suit everyone
Walks range from 10 to 90 minutes in length
At least one short walk a week, starting at the same time and place every week
All walks are accessible on foot or by public transport
You only need to join a group once to access all future walks
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